Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven months ago, Russell Hogg (rhymes with vogue), 50, became president of MasterCard, and set out to take back leadership in bank credit cards. A craggy onetime FBI agent with executive experience at American Express and American Airlines, Hogg promptly fired eight top officials and laid plans for a host of new products. The debit card is soon to be followed by a Japanese MasterCard and traveler's checks...
...tone of Voelpel's thoughts are fairly typical among the fans of Detroit, and poignantly express the eternal love affair between the team and its supporters, who regularly number well over 1.5 million a year...
...Faculty would borrow the necessary money from the Corporation much as if it were taking a loan from a bank. "It would operate precisely the way a homeowner would," he says, adding that the Corporation would charge normal market rates of interest-- now about 12.5 per cent annually. Administrators express little doubt that the Corporation will approve any suggested projects, despite the Faculty's dubious economic position, because renovations will save money in the long run. "If the Faculty has a proposal that makes good economic sense it will pass," Scott says...
...adolescent son trying to recover from a mental breakdown signaled by a suicide attempt-is perhaps an extreme one, it is hardly unknown in bourgeois America. Nor are the tensions that have been moving for a long time beneath the surface of the Jarretts' existence-an inability to express genuine affection or even speak frankly-exactly exotic...
...boating accident for which he feels responsible, and by his subsequent stay in a mental hospital. School, the swimming team, girls-he would like to return to them all with a full heart. But he can only mime the old moves. His mind is clogged by guilts he cannot express to his family or, at first, to the psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch)to whom he reluctantly reports...